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Curt
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Posted - 10/13/2011 :  2:48:10 PM  Show Profile  Visit Curt's Homepage  Reply with Quote
In the real world. There is a real world out there and it is dangerous.
For instance, a company is not very IT security aware.
But they have data in tables like payment type, social Security numbers, Medical information.

Can I use to the update command to remove data in fields of the tables?
I could delete rows from the table but that's not practical.
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Sure you can, as long as the application above the DB will allow the direct modification of the data without crying Just set them all to a generic value or NULL where allowed.

UPDATE [MY_SPIFFY_HR_DATABASE].[dbo].[_SUPERSECRETEMPLOYEE_DETAILS]
SET [Employee_SSN] = '000-00-0000'
Where IS NOT NULL [Employee_SSN]
GO
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Posted - 10/13/2011 :  3:42:31 PM  Show Profile  Visit Curt's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Thanks Mark.
I'll try it in test.
It's the table relations I'm worried about.

I'm sitting here in a brain freeze.
Thanks.
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He that is walking with wise persons will become wise, but he that is having dealings with the stupid ones will fare badly.
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Posted - 10/13/2011 :  4:07:24 PM  Show Profile  Visit Curt's Homepage  Reply with Quote
A little change there Mark.
I'm using the Great Plains Fabricam company database or test area.

It used to be called "The world online" thus TWO.
So if I wanted to remove the card name from the table based on a set of users I could modify this.
Great, and thanks for helping.


UPDATE TWO.dbo.SOP10103
SET CARDNAME = 'NONE'
Where CARDNAME IS NOT NULL
GO
Curt Spanburgh
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He that is walking with wise persons will become wise, but he that is having dealings with the stupid ones will fare badly.
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